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...Democrats, who have seen this coming, are using the 30th anniversary of Medicare to launch their pre-emptive strike. "I got the message of the 1994 election," Clinton declared at a birthday rally, "and I'm not going to let the government mess with your Medicare." Again and again, the President poked at the soft spots in the G.O.P. numbers, charging that the $270 billion taken out of Medicare would be used to pay for the G.O.P.'s $245 billion in tax cuts "for people who don't need it." Gingrich replied that Clinton was trying to scare senior citizens...
...result of Arafat's administration, government services in many cases have deteriorated in the past year. A letter mailed within the tiny Gaza Strip now takes a week to arrive instead of two days. The phone system is a mess, because the Palestinian Authority has added twice as many lines as it was designed for. Building construction is so unregulated that Arafat's own Planning Ministry warns of a "forthcoming disaster''; the Authority manages to collect even less in taxes than the Israelis did, and the security forces especially have developed a reputation for petty corruption. A common complaint...
Flawed or not, the agreement under discussion does illustrate one fact of overarching importance: the peace process continues. His administration may be a mess and the mail may not arrive, but Arafat has managed to keep the framework for talks intact, even though late last year they were at risk of tumbling down. For fear of igniting civil war when he arrived in the Gaza Strip, Arafat was at first permissive toward the Islamic Resistance Movement, also known as Hamas, and the much smaller Islamic Jihad, the two groups most militant toward Israel. But the soft approach merely emboldened...
Flanked by original sponsors ofMedicare, President Clinton commemorated the program's 30th birthday and vowed to a crowd of mostly elderly Americans, "I'm not going to let the government mess with your Medicare." Right on schedule,GOP House Speaker Newt Gingrichaccused the President of "a despicable strategy" to scare seniors: "He knows his numbers are false. He knows his anlaysis is false." Republican leaders challenged Clinton to present a plan to save Medicare within a week, though they gave themselves more time: "Republicans will have in 50 days a specific plan to save Medicare from bankruptcy," promised House Ways...
...read the first page, she circled andunderlined line after line with a thick red pen,shaking her head in disapproval. My mechanics, shesaid, were a mess. This was perfectly true;semicolons were my downfall. After glancing at thesecond page, she handed the essay back to me, andinquired if I was taking Expository Writing. No, Iresponded, growing meeker by the minute, I'd beenexempt. My answer did not sit well with her, andshe expressed grave displeasure. Where exactly didI transfer form?, she inquired. the AmericanCollege of Singapore, I answered, Well, Idefinitely needed to take Expose, she said, and itwas imperative...